The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected heroin overdose is putting a sharper focus on the reported skyrocketing use of heroin and prescription drugs. The CDC says more people are now dying from drug overdoses than are killed than car crashes every year. Sally Kidd is in Washington with the story.

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzkokhar Tsarnaev rested their case in his federal death penalty trial Tuesday after presenting a brief case aimed at showing his late older brother was the mastermind of the 2013 terror attack.